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Overview

News reports of AT&T, Verizon and other phone companies sharing customer data with the National Security Agency without obtaining a warrant as required by law are alarming. There is a long history of abuse of surveillance by intelligence agencies. Public figures like Martin Luther King and John Lennon as well as countless other citizens were monitored during the Vietnam war by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI for no reason other than their opposition to government policies. Today, technology enables surveillance which is at once more intrusive and less apparent than ever before. Ensuring Americans can communicate privately in the absence of probable cause is more important than ever.

We are mobilizing the investment community to press AT&T and Verizon to protect this critical freedom. To support this action see below. Press release, resolutions, and letters: Press Release AT&T Resolution Verizon Resolution Shareholders' Letter to AT&T Shareholders' Letter to Verizon AT&T Request for "No Action" to the SEC to Allow Excluding the Resolution As You Sow Reply to AT&T No Action Request Judge Walker's Order (attachment to reply) AT&T Second Letter As You Sow Reply to AT&T Second Letter SEC decision Verizon Request for "No Action" to the SEC to allow excluding the resolution As You Sow Reply to Verizon No Action Request Verizon Second Letter As You Sow Reply to Verizon Second Letter Verizon Third Letter As You Sow Reply to Verizon Third Letter

Shareholder Action

AT&T and Verizon customers, shareholders and concerned citizens can make their voices heard and put pressure on these telecommunication companies to have more transparency, accountability and leadership regarding their customer privacy policies. Companies cannot afford to ignore customers and shareholders or have a tarnished reputation.

If you are an individual shareholder, you can have more of an impact by calling, sending a letter or faxing the CEO, or the main investor relations contact. Contact information for the two companies is listed below for AT&T and Verizon.

       Sample letters (MS Word): AT&T Letter, Verizon Letter

Non-shareholders click here to go to our partner Working Assets' alert page to send a note to the CEO asking him to adopt As You Sow's "Privacy Rights Protection Report" resolution.

In Spring 2007 before the shareholders' meetings there will be further opportunities for action.

Recent News

• USA Today: NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls (5/11/06)
• CNet: Anger grows over NSA surveillance report (5/11/06)
• CBS News: Verizon Sued For Giving Records To NSA (5/12/06)
• NY Times: Qwest's Refusal of N.S.A. Query Is Explained (5/12/06)
• FoxNews: Verizon- We Didn't Give Customers' Call Records to NSA Either (5/16/06)
• Cox News Service: House Committee Demands Information On NSA Surveillance (6/22/06)
• NY Times: With Power Set to Be Split, Wiretaps Re-emerge as Issue (11/10/06)